The daughter of a provincial court judge was
granted bail yesterday in a Winnipeg courtroom.

Jessica Linda Smith has been charged with seven
offences including robbery with a weapon, possession
of a prohibited weapon, and wearing a disguise in
relation to a pair of robberies that took place
March 5 and 6.

She is also charged with five breaches of court
conditions, including alleged violations of weapons
and intoxicating substance bans.

A source confirmed that Smith is the adult
daughter of provincial court Judge Marva Smith.

Marva Smith is perhaps best known as the judge
who in the summer of 2006 presented a teenage robber
with a bouquet of flowers as a reward for her
progress. She has also made a couple of
controversial rulings involving police.

In May 2007, she ruled officers who entered a
woman's home while investigating a possible domestic
disturbance had no right to continue to press into
the home once the woman told them there was no
trouble. The woman was initially charged with
assaulting the officers, but Smith acquitted her,
ruling the officers were trespassing and the woman
was using reasonable force against them.

Also in 2007, Smith ruled a Winnipeg police
sergeant should be disciplined for failing to inform
a woman of her rights while officers performed a
search of her North End home. The woman, her husband
and son were placed in cruisers as officers searched
her home looking for a gun a tipster said they would
find there. No gun was found.

This past May, a Queen's Bench justice overruled
her decision, saying the officers could have done
things differently but did nothing that would
warrant discipline.